Wonder (Admiration)
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.72
5. > The Face and the Close -Up
Theoretical move: Deleuze's Spinozist reading of Descartes reframes autoaffection not as subjective self-touching (contra Derrida) but as a spatial, surface-creating phenomenon — a "plane of immanence" or "map" — where the face becomes the privileged site of inscription, transforming passionate affect into impersonal intensity and anticipating the cinematic close-up.
Descartes calls this originary passion 'Wonder'... Wonder is the least expressive of all passions, but it is at the same time the very site of conversion of physical needs into ontological signs.